Many wineries offer food and wine pairing experiences at their tasting rooms. A successful food and wine pairing can be symbiotic. Not only can flavors be enhanced in the food and/or the wines, but food can really enhance the wine, showing it in its best light. I experienced that with a unique experience at Margerum Wine Company and that is why the Bento Box Tasting and Wine Pairing at Margerum Wine Company in Los Olivos is the Please The Palate pick of the week. Continue »
Given the tremendous range of flavors available in Japanese cuisine, from fresh to funky, savory to sweet, spicy to delicate, it’s confounding that sushi and its culinary counterparts are not already a regular part of pairing menus in wine country. Counteracting that unfortunate oversight is Margerum Wine Company’s new tasting room in Los Olivos, where customers can pre-order bento boxes that have been developed to match with Doug Margerum’s bottlings. Continue »
Cleverly camouflaged as a simple wine room, Margerum Wine Company at the Hotel Californian in Santa Barbara’s Funk Zone is gaining quite a following for its food as well. Combine that with some of the best wine in Santa Barbara County, and it’s a brilliant pairing. “A lot of people don’t even know we serve food here,” said Doug Margerum, owner and wine maker. “Friends from France were recently here, and they told me we have the best food in Santa Barbara.” Continue »
There’s a black and white portrait in the Margerum Wine Company’s new tasting room in Los Olivos that leads some guests to assume its subject is no longer with us. “I’m still alive,” Santa Barbara County-based vintner Doug Margerum said with a laugh, before shifting his gaze to another framed piece in the venue, among a row of landscape paintings. Continue »
LOS OLIVOS, Calif. -- Margerum Wine Company is bringing a new food and wine pairing experience to Los Olivos. There are 51 tasting rooms in the Los Olivos Valley and Margerum is the only one with sushi and Oysters on the menu. Continue »